How to Use radium in a Sentence

radium

noun
  • Marie even kept radium salts on her bedside table — not a good choice of night lights.
    — Elisa Neckar, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2013
  • To an untrained eye, a small piece of radium may look like a chip off a regular gray rock.
    — Kelling Donald, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The colony is endowed with rubber and radium, copper and palm oil.
    — Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The treatment, called radium, targets the growth of new bone, which aligns with the spread of cancer.
    — Melinda Carstensen, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Back in Brandon, the city decisions on treating that radium are likely to take a year or more.
    — CBS News, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Clark said there are many, many paths uranium and radium can travel that poison lands, waters and living things.
    — Debra Krol, azcentral, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Curie sailed on June 25th on the Olympic, on which was carried her precious gram of radium.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
  • Within five years, many of them had grown ill from radium poisoning, or contracted rare bone cancers.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2021
  • At the time, radium was considered a miracle medicine, believed to extend life.
    — Sherri Becker, Philly.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Maddie has undergone three monthly rounds of the radium, and each injection is infused over one minute.
    — Melinda Carstensen, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2016
  • The corporation denied that radium caused the cancer and fought lawsuits brought by the workers.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • The $286 million project will divert lake water and negate the use of deep aquifer wells where the radium problem is rooted.
    — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Curie died at age 66 in 1934 of radium poisoning as a result of her research.
    — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Several workers – women and men – became ill and died after handling radium on watch dials.
    — cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Deborah Blum on the discovery of radium, in a stunning three-partseries.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2011
  • The health problems that result from working with the radium are also a challenge to portray, Deptula said.
    — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The case of radium All radium atoms are unstable and radioactive.
    — Kelling Donald, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But radium was rare and costly, with tiny quantities hoarded and chivvied between nations for experiments.
    — New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • In the center are several small compartments, formed of lead and surrounded by steel, each one sized for a small glass tube containing a portion of the radium salts.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
  • Since then, the park's water has exceeded allowed radium levels 15 times, court documents show.
    — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 22 July 2023
  • The first insert is set in Cleveland in 1957, where a doctor tests a new radium gun on a young boy suffering from cancer.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
  • In a journalism career that spanned 60 years, Gellhorn’s particular brand of nerve was rare as radium.
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 12 July 2018
  • The Curies hadn’t isolated pure radium, only compounds containing it.
    — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 30 July 2021
  • This byproduct of burning coal to generate power is full of heavy metals and toxic elements such as arsenic, mercury, chromium and even radium.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Some of the hottest material buried in Arlington is giving off 350 times more radium than state limits allow.
    — oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2020
  • Workers then began questioning the safety of radium, which led to the unraveling of corporate lies of the radioactive metal.
    — cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Now, the federal agency is finally recognizing the dangers posed by radium in coal ash, the byproduct of burning coal for electricity.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In Illinois, high radium levels occur primarily in the northern third of the state, department officials said.
    — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 23 May 2017
  • At more than 70 sites across the country, toxins like arsenic, mercury, and radium are leaching into groundwater from pond-like storage pits filled with the sludgy leftovers of coal burning.
    — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Vengosh added that the discovery at some sites of radium at levels far exceeding drinking water standards -- which can increase the risk of cancer -- were of particular concern.
    — CBS News, 2 Mar. 2018

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